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a stoneroller is a type of minnow isnt it?

bojon, yep directions were easy for me to understand from your drawings. thanks again, i will be building me one this weekend. i have a few questions about your dipping methods. 1. how thick are the walls of your tubes? 2. do you dip just 1 time or mutiple times? 3. how long does your plastic stay in the breadpan at dipping temp and how many ozs. at a time do you use to dip with? (i have never used a hotplate so im not familiar with using one for plastic) also thanks for posting the video on making tubes it really helped alot. brett

bojon, thank you for the plans of the tube cutter u sent me. as far as making a book that would be a great idea. you should also think about making your book availible in an ebook format also (pdf). then people could just use paypal and download it then print it out themselves. it would make it easier and whole lot faster than the mail system and you wouldnt have to mess with postage and waiting a week for the book to come in the mail. keep us updated as i will buy a book if you make one. thanks brett

hi guys, does anyone have a recipe for zoom's watermelon candy? im using lc watermelon and it just seems like mine is too green compared to zooms. im thinking i should add a drop or two of amber to brown it up a bit.i tried less watermelon and then its too light. 2 oz. plastic 5 drops LC watermelon .035 purple flake .035 black flake .035 green flake thanks brett

Hi guys has anyone made any 2 piece resin molds? and if so how are they for detail compared to POP or RTV? im thinking of making a 2 piece mold out of the castin craft clear resin that you can buy from from hobby stores. also what would be a good mold release for the resin other than the stuff that castin craft sells? thanks brett

im thinking of getting a presto pot to pour. right now i use a microwave but i want to pour more volume. my questions are 1. how long does it take for the plastic to heat up to pouring temp in a pot from room temp? 2. once the plastic is up to pouring temp how long can it hold at the temp without the color fading? if it even does .(refering to color fading with reheating in a microwave) 3. has anyone had problems with air bubbles when adding a motor to stir the plastic? (from my search im guessing stiring at between 60 and 90rpm) thanks, brett

here is a link from bass boat central where a guy made his own. you can save a few hundred dollars by making your own, somewhere on that site also i seen before where a guy used a plastic cutting board and golf club plastic tube holders to make one, anyway mabe this can give you some ideas http://www.bassboatcentral.com/jhaynesrodholder.htm

personally i never let anyone psych me out for the simple reason that 99.9% of the time if a person is runnning thier mouth before a tournament its usally bullcrap anyway (the louder a person talks the more crap he is talking). being calm and quiet is usally enough intimidation in itself exspecially if you have made a name for yourself on your local tournament scene as being competitive and knocked out a few wins for the year. and if you do talk to someone talk about anything EXCEPT fishing, it makes the people around you think that you are not worried about the tournament. but the one that kills people the most is ALWAYS weigh-in with BLACK weigh-in bag so no one can see ur fish while your standing in line to weigh. it really amazes me also how rumors get started on tournaments, most of the people who claim thier "on fish" before the tournament never come in with thier limits and very rarely win if ever which either mean thier fish moved or they were trying to psyche everyone out to begin with. about 5 years ago me and my partner were fishing a circut that averaged about 70 boats per tournament. the day of the 2nd tournament the lake we were soposed to fish had 9 different tournaments going out (all at 6am) so the tournament director changed the tournament to another lake about 15 min away. i hadnt been one the new lake in about 10 years and my partner had never been on it at all. so we decided to start fishing in the bay we took off from. we managed to get only 3 bites all day but landed all 3 fish (2- 14 inchers and 1- 3 pounder). at the end of the day we decided to just to dump the fish and go home thinking there was no way to get in the money with 3 fish, just as i opened the livewell to get the fish the guy in the next boat told me that only 1 boat so far had weighed more than 1 fish. we weighed the fish and wound up taking big bass and 1st place and splitting a 1500$ check. i give credit for that win to 100% luck and being at the right place at the right time. about 3 months later i was talking to a guy after a tournament on that circut and he had brought up how bad of a tournament that was. then he told me that he heard the 2 guys that won it that day had pre-fished the lake all week prior and one of them actually lived on the lake and knew it like the back of his hand.(the lake is almost 2 hours away from either me or my partners house lol). i asked him how they knew the tournament was going to be changed and he said they had inside info. i just replied to him "wow". lol ....rumors

stamina has the same crankbait bodies as what janns has.

hi guys, im thinking of building a rod from a janns netcraft im6 blank. has anyone used thier blanks before? how do they compare to some of the other blanks in that price range? (25 to 30$ range) thanks, brett

hi guys, i have been reading alot on this forum and have been learning alot. im just beginning. so bear with me please. im planning on making plastics for myself and few friends, thats all. no mass production. my question is there are so many different colors to choose from im having a hard time deciding what basic colors i should start out with. the budget i have set to start out with will allow me to buy 10 bottles of colors. can anyone give me a basic list of colors to start out with? also, at del-mart do they keep molds in stock or do they make them as they are ordered? im planning on buying an aluminum mold that is on thier site and wondered if there was a wait to have it made. thanks